Twenty-five-year-old Paul Logan was married with two small children and lived with his family in Consett, Dorset, England. He worked at a takeout restaurant.
On the evening of December 23rd, 1993, a call came into the restaurant from a nearby phone booth at the intersection of Snows Green Road and Benfieldside Road. The caller asked for their food to be delivered to Blue House Farm in the countryside of Northumberland. There was nothing obviously unusual about the call, so the order was made, and Paul went to deliver it.
When he arrived at the house, though, the residents claimed they hadn’t ordered any food and sent Paul away, thinking that would be the end of it.
However, several hours later, the homeowners became concerned when they saw that Paul’s vehicle—a white Peugeot—was still parked on their property with its lights on and the doors open. They phoned the police shortly before two a.m.
Officers arrived and quickly discovered the lifeless body of Paul Logan, lying in a snowy field about fifty yards from the car. He had been bludgeoned to death with a blunt instrument.
The motive for the crime was not clear, but investigators assumed that the assailant or assailants had surreptitiously closed the gate after Paul drove through it, then attacked him when he exited his vehicle to reopen it.
In 2018, Paul’s family announced that they were offering a £50,000 reward for information leading to the conviction of Paul’s killer. Sadly, though, the reward is still unclaimed, and the crime remains unsolved as of August 2024.
Crime Immemorial 